ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,703,528, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to WURTH INTERNATIONAL AG (Chur, Switzerland).

"Refilling station for dispenser can with transponder reader and dispenser can transponder" was invented by Michael Scheuber (Langenbrettach, Germany) and Herbert Reuther (Krautheim, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A refilling station comprises a receiving device for receiving a dispenser can to be refilled with an active ingredient, a transponder reader for selectively reading dispenser can-related data of a dispenser can transponder attached to the dispenser can when the dispenser can is attached to the receiving device, and a control device ...